UDWR State Legislation, undated
Scope and Contents
The Utah Wilderness Association collection is broken down into record groups, series, and sub-series. There are ten record groups ranging in size from two or three boxes to seventy-six. The first record group is Administration and contains all of the membership and volunteer files, minutes from board meetings, flyers, events, general press releases about the organization, and fundraising information. The second record group, and largest, is the BLM (Bureau of Land Management). The Utah Wilderness Association spent a great deal of time appealing decisions by the BLM regarding Utah's wilderness. (Most of these files are located in the BLM: General Wilderness Files series.)
The remaining BLM record group is divided into series by geographical area, for example Vernal District and Richfield District. The Forest Service record group which is as large as the BLM, is similarly broken down into geographical regions. After the initial series of Forest Service: Wilderness Files and Forest Service: General Files, which apply to files covering broad forestry issues in Utah, subsequent series have a tighter focus and contain files relating to one specific forest or national forest in Utah. A similar record group, Forest Planning, follows. Containing only thirteen boxes, Forest Planning houses information pertaining to policy, growth, and ecosystem management in forestry. The National Park record group contains files for the national parks in Utah, such as Arches, Capital Reef, and Zion, each within its own series. General Environmental Issues is a catch-all record group. It contains files on air quality, energy issues, public opinion on uses of natural resources, and wildlife issues. The Wildlife series only has six boxes, but houses all the information on bear baiting, cougar and Sandhill crane hunting, all of which the UWA strongly opposed.
The Utah Wilderness Act record group contains five boxes chronicling the fight for protecting Utah's wild lands. The record group contains public comments to state legislators, notes and papers from state hearings in Utah, as well as from the U.S. House and Senate Hearings. Box 5 contains hundreds of news clippings and press releases about the Utah Wilderness Act of 1984, including articles about the 1985 dedication of the wilderness areas.
The collection ends with three small record groups, the first of which is RARE II. This group contains files on the Roadless Area Review Evaluation of 1978, including many journal and magazine articles, maps, and specific data on areas studied. The Utah Wilderness Association Review newsletters are housed in the UWA Reviews record group. The newsletter was produced bi-monthly from 1981-1996. This collection is incomplete, but additional Utah Wilderness Association Reviews are located in another area of Special Collections (call numbers 591.9792 W645n and 591.9792 W645r). The final record group is labeled Maps and contains two boxes. The maps pertain to wilderness areas in Utah and Idaho, mostly national forests.
- Record groups include: Series I: Administration (Board of Directors, Political Correspondence, Financial, Personnel, Miscellaneous, Membership, Fund-raising, Events, Calendars, Publications, Wildlife Issues)
- Series II: Bureau of Land Management (General Wilderness Files, Cedar City District, Deep Creek Mountains, Moab District, Vernal District, Richfield District, Salt Lake City District)
- Series III: Forest Service-National Forests (Wilderness Files, General Files, High Uintas Wilderness, Ashley Forest, Dixie National Forest, Fishlake National Forest, Manti LaSal Forest, Uinta National Forest, Wasatch-Cache National Fores)
- Series IV: Forest Planning
- Series V: National Parks (Arches, Canyon Lands, Capital Reef National Park, Cedar Breaks, Dinosaur National Monument, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Great Basin National Park, Zion National Park, National Park (Misc.), Nuclear Waste Repository, General)
- Series VI: General Environmental Issues (Clean Air, Central Utah Project, Energy, Miscellaneous, Water, State Land, Sage Brush Rebellion, Wildlife)
- Series VII: Utah Wilderness Act
- Series VIII: RARE II (Roadless Area Review Evaluation)
- Series IX: UWA Reviews (Newsletters)
- Series X: Maps
Dates
- Creation: undated
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research.
Extent
From the Collection: 233 boxes (105 linear ft.)
Repository Details
Part of the Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Repository
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan Utah 84322-3000 United States
435 797-8248
435 797-2880 (Fax)
scweb@usu.edu